Gordon Highlanders' Regimental Headquarters And Museum, Viewfield Road, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 May 1977. Museum. 2 related planning applications.

Gordon Highlanders' Regimental Headquarters And Museum, Viewfield Road, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
kindled-cobalt-starling
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 May 1977
Type
Museum
Address
Gordon Highlanders' Regimental Headquarters And Museum, Viewfield Road, Aberdeen, AB15 7XH
OS grid reference
NJ 912 051
Coordinates
57.13745, -2.14618
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Gordon Highlanders' Regimental Headquarters and Museum, built around 1800 and later extended by Dr. Kelly, is a single-storey building with a harled exterior. It features a bell-cast slated roof with canted dormers, dressed band-courses, and margins. The façade includes two bay windows with lying panes and a porch. The extension is two-storeyed and has oriel windows. At the rear, there is a studio dating from around 1900, constructed of granite, harled, and rendered, which includes large windows and a round tower. Additionally, there is a two-storeyed out-house with a stair leading to the upper floor.

Local climate

Gordon Highlanders' Regimental Headquarters And Museum, Viewfield Road, Aberdeen receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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